We’ll have video snippets of the highlights from each of these presentations online in this post within 24 hours:
1. Mpowerplayer, Michael Powers, CEO
Provides a socially-enable “Application Store” for major web properties, including Sprint, European Telcos.
2. Promptu, Giuseppe Staffaroni, President & CEO
Slick iPhone application for browsing train and transit schedules by voice command.
3. Mobclix, Vishal Gurbuxani, [...]
Interviewing innovative tech startups
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6 Wireless startups spin for 6 minutes, at AlwaysOn 2009
13 Startups spin for 6 minutes in “CEO Showcase” session at AlwaysOn 2009
1. PreVisite – Jeffrey Nortman, COO:
A new, easier, better way to list private homes for sale online.
2. Skymeter – Kamal Hassan, CEO
Provides a specialized GPS road tolling service.
3. Magic Studio Network – Ben Hayman, CEO
An interactive learning network for educational applications.
4. iPeak Networks – Martin Horne, CEO
Hardware play, improving wide-area network performance for video conferencing.
5. AdParlor [...]
Panel discussion examines Angel versus Venture investing
This panel was moderated by Sam Angus, Partner at Fenwick and West. The panelists were:
Ron Conway, Founder Angel Investors LP
Rob Hayes, Partner, First Round Capital
Joyce Chung, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures
Aydin Senkut, Founder & President, Felicis Ventures
Conway, sometimes referred to as the Godfather of Silicon Valley because of the propensity for and success of his [...]
Summary of Startup Trek’s AlwaysOn “Summit at Stanford” coverage
As of 4:00PM PDT Wed July 30 (event runs another 1 hour):
Pending: Tony Perkins and senior staffers wish Stanford Summit Audience Audu (photo, article pending)
An interview with John Kish, President & CEO, Pano Logic (in edit)
An interview with Dave Kroetsch, President, Aeryon Labs (in edit)
An interview with Promptu CEO (interview at 4:40PM)
An interview with Liquid [...]
AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford opens with review of M&A, IPO market
Tony Perkins, CEO of AlwaysOn, and TIm Miller, VP at 451 Group opened the AlwaysOn “Summit at Stanford” this evening with an overview of the current M&A and IPO market, and by reviewing the status of the AO 250 announced at last year’s conference. We’ve recorded a 10-minute segment from the core of the [...]
AlwaysOn panel discusses open source software for SaaS web applications
A panel of entrepreneurs and intellectual property experts discussed the issue of using open source software for SaaS applications, at the AlwaysOn 2009 Summit at Stanford:
Matt Asay, VP Business Development, Alfresco; & Blogger, CNET
Ron Yekutiel, CEO, Kaltura
Satish Dharmaraj, Partner Redpoint Ventures, and Founder, former CEO Zimbra
Tom Erickson, CEO, Acquia
Kim Polese, CEO, SpikeSource
The issues discussed ranged [...]
Startup Trek interviews Doron Reuveni, CEO of hot mobile application startup uTest
uTest co-founder and CEO Doron Reuveni interviews with Startup Trek about his fast-growing company during a break at the AlwaysOn 2009 conference. uTest is a venture capital funded startup based in Boston, MA which has invented a “crowdsourced” testing model for mobile device applications.
uTest has invented a way to globally “crowdsource” mobile application testing. [...]
Rafe Needleman of CNET moderates AlwaysOn Cloud Computing panel
This panel discussion, moderated by Rafe Needleman of CNET, brought together six founders and executives from the cloud computing world:
Ken Comee, CEO Cast Iron Systems
Monica Lam, Co-Fouder and Chief Scientist, MokaFive
Juan Carlos Soto, VP Sun Microsystems
Chip Hazard, General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners
Michael Stein, CEO Darkstrand
Michael Peachey, Chief Architect & Dir. Engineering-Cloud Computing, TIBCO
The concept of [...]
Mobile panel at AlwaysOn 2009 examines business models
Mark Newhall, C0-founder IdealWave and INMobile.org moderated a panel at AlwaysOn 2009, examining the health and viability of mobile computing applications, advertising, and marketing. The panelists were:
Bart Decrem, CEO Tapulous
Simon Khalaf, CEO Flurry
Matt Murphy, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Dorrian Porter, CEO Mozes
Purnima Kochikar, VP Nokia Community & Developer Forum
One of the most surprising statements [...]
Paul Jacobs, Qualcomm CEO addresses AlwaysOn 2009 conference
Paul Jacob began his talk by expressing great optimism about the health and robustness of the US cellphone business. He pointed out that US cell phone users consume four times the cell phone minutes of European users.
He brought up some of the past debates between technologies that have come up in recent years, e.g. is [...]